HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1958-04-03, Page 1THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN DIEFENBAKER,
PRIME MINISTER OF ,OANADA •
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker received a mandate from
the electors In Cariada,-'which was without parallel. The Progres-
sive Conservative, panty now has e20.9 seats in the, House of'
Commons, more than any other one party since Confederatione
The Liberals' have 47; the Cele 8 and the Social Credit have none.
The stunning sweep into power was termed by the Prime Minister
himself as "stupefying".
Bob McGregor Heads
County Beef Producers
Totals
VILLAGE OF
Poll No, 1A
Poll No. 113
687 248
HENSALL
. 146 71 '
. 148 85
294 156 Totals
Public School Students with High. Standings
tchbot studems who won proficiency 7; arid Paul Bateman, Grade, 0., At left is Sett
awards made by the Clinton Lions Club were Gray, olitelpal of the scherai,
Rose Brubacher, Oracle 6; Sharon Gray, Grade (Staff Photo)
.ELSTON L. ,CARDIFF
Veteran of 18 years at Ottawa, the representative of the
Riding of Huron, followed the trend across Canada on Monday,
and chalked up more of a majprity for himself and the perty,
than in his previebe five elections. Results were: Cardiff, 13,885;
Cochrane, Liberal, 7,238. Pictured as he stood at the main inter-
section of Clinton the night of the election, the Union Jack wav-
ing le the background, Mr. Cardiff was delivering his victory
address. (Staff Photo)
Statistics Voting Monday
Compare With Last June
1958 '1958 1957 1957
P.C. Lib. P.C. Lib.
Ashfield 555 235 489
Blyth 298 88 261
Brussels 316 150 ' 305
Clinton 1008 404 859
Colborne 384 164 298
Exeter 97e 500 913
Goderich 212e 891 1689
Goderich Twp 532 169 517'
Grey 599 319 538
Hay 602 602 533
Hensel]. 294 156 242
Hibbert 415 349 383
Follett 588 285 523
MeXillop 438 312 388
Morris 575 231 572
Seaforth 651 5 451 491
Stanley 587 248 650
Stephen 894 611 809.
Til ekerunith 638 513 • 523,
Usborne e - 554 213 530
East Wawanosh 370 163 350
West Wawanosh 396 196 359
Advance P011 12 4
— -- —
Totals 13,885 7,238 12,222 '8,555,
Majority for P.C,s 6,647 3,667
294
97
161
519
198
462
1126
229
366
631
179
0411
337
371
261
661
295
688 •
653
231,
180
205
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Cardiff's Victory Speech Unrivalled Pection .Sweep7;
Elston dna.John' "Carry Qn
(03' M 0.)
LOTS OF CROCUSES OF MR'
ple, gold and white . . but who
has seen a robin? SoireelloW we
fed it should not he long before
the cheery little fellows are out
after their worms again . ,
the south of the county the seed,
ing is pretty well along , and
to judge by the dust on the et-
reete of town, Spring is -officially
here .
,P 4' 4'
INTERESTING LIME NOTE
was pinned to the outside of one
of the office doors in town on
Tuesday mornig . It was that
of the Liberal party's chairman
. We quote: "Not dead;: just
resting . „
,$
BEAU-4FM WEATHER ON
eVfooday for a "dud-winter elect-
ion" wasn't For some reason
,the sun seems to be shining upon
`the fortunes of the prime minister
and his government . . Even
the weather has been good . .
tOf.course the rain. fell on Mr.
Diefenbaker in his home constit-
uency . . •but they would have
gone out to vote for him there
anyway . . . Here in Ontario . .
and probably in Quebec, too .
the weather was wonderful . .
* *
LOTS OF CHANGES' GOING ON
in business throughout town . . .
A new garage opened on April 1
_tee new BA service station un-
der the management of Don Smith
. . X. W. "Danny" Colquhoun
has moved into his, new quarters
in the former Fred Ford seed
store on Issac Street , .. Work
is progressipg on the restaurant
next door to us . . . The addition
to the Bell Telephone exchange
building is nearing completion . .
Cliff Labia's new location (the for-
mer Merrill Radio and Electric).
is almost ready for occupancy . .
There's a new front on: the old
T. J. Riley grocery store, into
which we hear Orville Stanley
plans to move . . , All these
,changes, and more in the offing...
* *
ANYR3ODY WANT TO ENTER
the Maple Syrup Festival at Hun-
tsville on. May 19 . . . Entry form
available here at this office . . .
The whole thing sounds very in-
teresting . . Of course one needs
a gallon of pure maple syrup which
one doesn't mind losing . . . One
of the regulations is that the
syrup becomes the property of
the sponsoring organization . . .
However competition is from both
Canada and the United States,
in fact any friendly nation . .
and it could be quite interesting.
Youngster Has
Experience With
Bunk Bed Rails
Police and firemen were called
to the trailer camp home of Rob-
ert Wright last Wednesday night
to assist in reviving the .122-month-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wright.
The boy had gotten his head cau-
ght in the railing on the side of
his sleeping bunk, When police
arrived, Mr. Wright had extricated
the young lad, but he was unton-
scions. Firemen were called to
the scene to operate the resuscit-
ator, but the machine was not
needed. The boy recovered.
The Week's Weather-
High Low High Low
1958 1957
March 27 46 ' 31 41 30
28 48 25 42 22
29 50 32 44 28
30 51 29 42 21
31 51 32 47 19
April 1 52 34 50 83
2 55 25 49 25
No Rain Snow: 21/2 "
No Snow
Past Grands Night
Enjoyed By
Clinton I.O.O.F. 83
Following a dinner meeting,
prepared under the, convepership
of Harold Tyndall, 'Clinton Lodge
I.0.0..F, No. 83 held- the annual
Past Grands' Night on Wednes-
day evening, Mareh 26. Noble
Grand, Bert Rowden, was in the
arge of the meeting:
The Past Grancls, along with the
Noble Grand and., Vice Grand,
John Sangster, wher, occupied the
various chair's were:'. Junior Past
Grand, Clarence Green;' Noble
Grand, William Mutch.; Vice Gr-
and, W. M. Nediger; Recording
Secretary, Benson Sutter; Finan-
cial Secretary, J-01-14 A. Sutter;
Treasurer, Harold Tyndall; Ward-
en, CharlesVook; Conductor, Nor-
man Counter; Right Supporter
Noble Grand, John 'Clegg; Left
Supporter Noble Grand Alvin Sh-
arp; Right Supporter Vice Grand,
Caryl Draper; Left Supporter Vice
Grand, Edward Mittell; Right Sc-
ene Supporter, John Sangster;
Left Scene Supporter,' Harry W.ey:
mouth; Inside Guardian, Barrett
Taylor; Chaplain, Heft Rowden.
This meeting was also ,the of-
ficial visit of D. D. 0. M. George
Falconer, who announced that the
district meeting would be held
in Clinton on Wednesday, April R.
He also expressed 0,peseelo.tion to
the Lodge for theeieuplegt given
him during his term elf office, and
also to those who had assisted
on his installing team. 4
Details of the Annual Friend-
ship Night were announced. This
event will be held in the 'Christ-
ian Education Hall of Ontario
Street United Church on Satur-
day evening, April 19,, when all
lodges in the area will be invited
to attend The guest speaker will
be S. Herbert •Dawson, Riverside,
Deputy Grand. Master of the Sue-
isdietion of.,Ontario. The men of
Romeo Lodge, Stratford, and the
ladies of May Queen' Rebekah
Lodge, London, will each put on
the floor work part of their de-
gree. This will be an Open Meet-
ing when all Ocldfellows and their
wives, Rebekahs and their hus-
bands, and friends, are welcome
to attend.
Announcement was also made
of the C. P, and T. card party
to be held in the Lodge Room on
Friday evening, April 11.
0
Cancer Society
Gets. Ready For
Annual Campaign
The Clinton and District Can-
cer Society executive is preparing
for the house-to-house canvass
campaign which will be held from
April 14 to 19, Last Thursday
they met in the council chamber
with the president Mrs, William
Morlok in the chair.
Representatives froth the town
and the townships of Hullett,
Tuckersmith and Goderich, as well
as from. RCAF Station Clinton
were present. Mrs. C. A. Powell
spoke for the station and ;town-
ship spokesmen were Mr. Falconer
and Reeve 1, Coleman,
Arrangements were made for a
CanvaSs by volunteers with Mayor
W. J. Miller as campaign manag-
er, John Livermore, town eerie
treaseter, offered his services as.
campaign treasurer.
The meeting was informed that
permission had been granted tb-
rough the good Offices,of the
Group Ceptain X, C. Ceeneron,
Commanding Officer of nCtiar
Station Clinton for a canvass on
the station. Mrs. Powell and her
volunteers will do this work,
Boss Merrill outlined the div-
isions In the area given to each
grant) of workers in last year's
campaign and it, was decided to
follow the same for the year 1958.
Provision was made to secure vol-
unteer workers for each' division
in this reenth'e effort.
Ointett Fire Brigade extingu-
ished flames in the Williams Apar-
&limits, Albert Street, lase Wed.
hesday evening, which had Started
ftont as oil stove.
Robert McGregor, RR 2, leippen,
was returned as president of the
Huron County Beef Producers As-
sociation, last night, by 50 pro-
ducers who attended the annual
meeting of the group in the agri-
cultural office board room. He is
supported by Jack Armstrong,
vice-president and directors Bob
Young Lad, 'fa_ es
Early Swim
The first dip in Lake Huron
'at Bayfield was taken on Wed-
nesday by four-year-old Barry
Archer, Ottawa. The little lad
was with his mother, Mrs. W.
L. Archer and aunt, Miss Ruth
E. Hayman at the Hayman
cottage for a few hours, To
him Hayfield meant bathing,
and he ran ahead of his mo-
ther to the shore and right
out through the icy slush until
the ice broke. He was in
water up to his waist, before
he realized that it wasn't ex-
actly like summer.
0
.Cliff Epps, Clinton, Will be guest
on, "IVeLady", CKNX-TV, on Mon-
day, Apri17, to discuss "Spring
Gardening", at 8.15 p.m.
Campbell, Wilbur Hewett • and
George Robertson. Carl Heming-
way, secretary-treasurer, was re-
appointed.
The meeting indicated approval
of the proposed ten-cent deduction
on mature animals and five cents
on calves, but requested the direc-
tors to find out more about the
idea of auction selling before they,
endorsed this plan.
Speakers included Andy Mc-
Tavish, director of the Ontario
Beef Producers executive, Paisley,
who outlined the proposed promo-
tion program and discussed the
question of support prices to pre-
vent disaster selling, such as had
happened last fall. He stated that
it was up to the producer to ad-
vertise the fresh beef product.
Fred Campbell, manager of the
Ontario Stockyards, Toronto, re-
ported that the American beef
.feeder is still extremely optimistic,
"In markets," he said, "there is a
wide variety of quality in cattle,
The wide fluctuation in cattle
prices is due to the fact there is
too many cattle arrive on Monday
—85 percent appear in the first
two days of the week.
Campbell was introduced by
Douglas H, Miles and was thanked
by Jack Armstrong.
ative, Liberal and Cc* Mr. Card-
iff earned 10568 votes, and a
total of 324 majority. Four yeare.
later, with only Liberal oppostt-
ion, he polled 10,975 votes, but
increased his majority to 1,332'
votes. Last year in the Juno 10
switch to PC government, he pol-'
led 12,222 votes, and his majority
went up to 3,667.,
This year the total number of
vnte$. for Cardiff was 13,885 votes,
to" 7,238 for W. G. Cochrane,
eter lawyer and Liberal candid-
ate. The majority rose again,, to
6647. The service vote has yet
to be heard front:
Mr. Cardiff viaas the official par-
ty whip of the Progressiv Con-
servatives in the last government.
Mr. Cardiff's victory parade be-
gan from his farm home near
Brussels shortly after Mr. Cpree-
rane conceded the election at
about eight o'clock` He proceeded
to Wingham, where hp was seen
over CXNX-TV at the same time
that a radio broadcast was going
out over CICNX
After meeting constituents in
Blyth, and at, Goderich, where he
and Mrs. Cardiff were carried
about the square on the back of
a truck, so that all of the people
who wished could see him and hear
hire: speak, he proceeded to
ton, where hundreds of people, the
Bannockbuvn Pipers and the Sea-
forth brass band• were on hand.
Climbing to the bumper of one
of the cars parked on the street,
•Carcliff spoke quietly to the or-
derly crowd, promising help for
every corner of the riding, He
recalled his. first campaign in
1940 when he attained 40 votes
more than.' his opponent R. J.
Deachman.
At an early hour of the morning
he and the official party arrived
in the village of Zurich. After-
warde they left fdr Exeter and
the wind-up of the evening.
Poll by Poll Results
CLINTON
'Cardiff Cochrane
Poll No.' 21 223729, 110112
3 268 104
4 229 87
Totals 1008 404
TUCKERSMI,T6
851
11
Poll No. 21
114 87'
3. 67 56
4 101 50
5 79 44.
6
8
55 _ 49
751 12184,
Totals 638
PollNo,}121ULLET77105
3 ,.. 65
4 146
5 31
6 83
7 78 49 . ---
Totals .588 285
GODERICH TOWNSHIP
Poll No. 1 118 35
2 91 20
3 85 39
4 85 14
5 98 42
6 75 19
Totals 552 169
STANLEY
Poll No. 1. 77
2 47 48
3 68 18
4 155, 23.
5 81 25
6 82 36
7 ... 27 18
8 150 35
Holiday . Hours
At Clinton
Post Office
Holiday hogre at the •Clinte
eion Post Office haye. been
nounced by poetmeeter Arthur
Bail. as follows: `Ohl goo, :Fri..
day. 'the wicket wile s be open
teem 3., to --On Daster
Monday the wieltet will be .op-
en from . 10 to i2 am. and
from 1 too 3 p,ot The lobby
will be open until ,6 pan, on
both days.
•
"Cardiff' Wins Huron Again"
was the headline announcing the
sixth consecutive win for the 69
year-old Brussels farmer, Wheti,
the results of lVionday!s Federal
eieethin were totalled. He 'went
back to the• House of Commons,
with a flood of nearly 14,000 votes,
the greatest support in hie 1$
years as .a member,
In 1949 when there were three
candidates; . Progressive Copserv-
513
49
32
46:
46.
19
44
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Pretty Little Bluebell's at First Festival
First restival ()if the Bluebells of Clinton,
Was held in the council chamber of the tOW11 hall,
Made festive WO pretty Bluebells themselves;
the good smells of home baking; the lovely
handmade flowers and •fancy work which the
girls and-their supporters had provided,
,, (toff Photo):,